We have all heard people talk about taking someone’s pulse. Most adults have a resting heart rate of 60 to 100 beats per minute (bpm). The fitter you are the lower your resting heart rate will be, so an...

Not everyone is an expert on the commonly used health terms that we hear and read about every day. Many of us truthfully have no idea what terms like BMI, lean body mass and respiratory rate mean at all.
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Our body temperature often reflects our health. The term normally refers to the temperature of our core, not our extremities, however the temperature of our extremities can be a good indicator of health also, for instance, freezing cold, blue-coloured...

If you want to control your weight it is calories that count
We have all heard of ‘counting the calories’, but what does that actually mean? All energy, from food to battery power, is measured in calories. A calorie is...